Your dog can understand what you say better than you think, new study shows
Our dogs understand us better than they've been given credit for — and scientists say they have the brain wave evidence to prove it. By placing electrodes on the heads of 18 pet dogs, researchers found striking evidence that the animals did not merely recognize the patterns of sound that come out of their owners' mouths, they actually realized that certain words refer to specific objects. The ...
Our dogs understand us better than they've been given credit for — and scientists say they have the brain wave evidence to prove it.
By placing electrodes on the heads of 18 pet dogs, researchers found striking evidence that the animals did not merely recognize the patterns of sound that come out of their owners' mouths, they actually realized that certain words refer to specific objects.
The findings were reported Friday in the journal Current Biology.
"For decades there has been a debate about whether animals are capable of such a level of abstraction," said study leader , a neuroscientist and at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. The experiments with dogs knock down the uniqueness of humans "a little bit."
